[GHC] #5247: include generics library

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

I don't understand why syb needs to be a boot library.  If you want to use it, just install and use it!  I must be missing something

Simon

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| Subject: [GHC] #5247: include generics library
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| #5247: include generics library
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|     Reporter:  jhala             |       Owner:
|         Type:  feature request   |      Status:  new
|     Priority:  normal            |   Component:  libraries (other)
|      Version:  7.0.3             |    Keywords:
|     Testcase:                    |   Blockedby:
|           Os:  Unknown/Multiple  |    Blocking:
| Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple  |     Failure:  None/Unknown
| ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------
|  Is it possible to include a generics library (e.g. SYB) in the boot
|  libraries?
|  This would make the GHC API easier to use within systems whose
|  dependencies are a subset of GHC's (e.g. Haddock). In particular,
|  various internal GHC types are instances of Data etc. and can be
|  accessed easily via the generics library.
| 
|  (I have a variant of Haddock that can, in conjunction with HsColour,
|  generate mouseover types, http://goto.ucsd.edu/~rjhala/Annot/ but
|  it uses SYB to traverse the parsed-and-typechecked-source.)
| 
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